Facebook flog - Jul 9 2014

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Link: Jul 9 2014, 19:46
Disclaimer: This blog entry is verbatim, as originally posted on LKH's Facebook. Copyright belongs to Ma Petite Enterprises.

Target showing first hits for new guns. Jon may have won me to .45 ACP at long last.

Comments

[subtle-shades.livejournal.com]

I think that my assumption - that we have different personal/family cultures - still stands. Based on what you've said, literally the only thing we have in common is growing up in multicultural families that owned guns and taught us the very basics of using them. (Although I find your assumption that "American" = "white" troublesome... as is your assumption that it's uncommon to grow up in a mixed culture household. But then, that's my own background peeking through.)

...and I wasn't actually trying to convince you of anything. I put more effort into arguments/persuasive pieces. I thought it was an interesting tidbit and was sharing it.

But otherwise I probably agree with you?

[deadsong.livejournal.com]

I don't think American = white. I phrased that poorly, and for that I'm sorry. I've been talking white privilege with one of my friends all day, and talking about racism and the continued divide between white Americans and non-white Americans, plus the varying forms racism takes among non-white Americans themselves--and some of my train of thought probably crept into this inadvertently and led to some muddled phrasing.

We do have very different personal / family cultures; my only disagreement is with your assumption that the culture I come from drives my current discomfort with guns. (And I mean "culture" as in environment more than anything to do with ethnicity or country of origin.) But otherwise, yeah, we're pretty much agreeing. It's more a "live and let live" thing, anyway.